Slideshow

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Widget description

This widget, as the name indicates, is a pre-made image slideshow panel, with API functions acting on (child) image items presentation. Between those actions, are:

  • advance to next/previous image

  • select the style of image transition animation

  • set the exhibition time for each image

  • start/stop the slideshow

The transition animations are defined in the widget’s theme, consequently new animations can be added without having to update the widget’s code.

Slideshow items

For slideshow items, just like for Genlist ones, the user defines a classes, specifying functions that will be called on the item’s creation and deletion times.

The SlideshowItemClass class contains the following members:

  • get - When an item is displayed, this function is called, and it’s where one should create the item object, de facto. For example, the object can be a pure Evas image object or a Photocam widget.

  • delete - When an item is no more displayed, this function is called, where the user must delete any data associated to the item.

Slideshow caching

The slideshow provides facilities to have items adjacent to the one being displayed already “realized” (i.e. loaded) for you, so that the system does not have to decode image data anymore at the time it has to actually switch images on its viewport. The user is able to set the numbers of items to be cached before and after the current item, in the widget’s item list.

Emitted signals

  • changed - when the slideshow switches its view to a new item. event_info parameter in callback contains the current visible item

  • transition,end - when a slide transition ends. event_info parameter in callback contains the current visible item

Inheritance diagram